Vagrant

You’ll need , if you don’t have it refer to .

Vagrant uses Virtualbox to manage the virtual dependencies. You can and install or use Homebrew for it.

Now install Vagrant either from the website or use Homebrew for installing it.

Add the Vagrant box you want to use. We’ll use Ubuntu 12.04 for the following example.

You can find more boxes at .

Now create a test directory and cd into the test directory. Then we’ll initialize the vagrant machine.

You can ssh into the machine now.

Halt the vagrant machine now.

$ vagrant halt

Other useful commands are and destroy.